Index: trunk/maven-project/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/project/MavenProjectTest.java
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--- trunk/maven-project/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/project/MavenProjectTest.java	(revision 373622)
+++ trunk/maven-project/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/project/MavenProjectTest.java	(working copy)
@@ -29,4 +29,29 @@
         MavenProject clonedProject = new MavenProject(projectToClone);
         assertEquals("maven-core", clonedProject.getArtifactId());
     }
+    
+	/**
+	 * This test case WILL FAIL, because FileReader-instances cannot cope with UTF-8 encoded files.
+	 * Maven uses FileReaders by default to read POMs. 
+	 * @throws Exception
+	 */
+    public void testUTF8EncodedProject() throws Exception
+    {
+		File f = getFileForClasspathResource( "utf-8-encoded-pom.xml" );
+    		MavenProject utf8EncodedProject = getProject( f );
+    		
+    		assertEquals( "öäüß", utf8EncodedProject.getDescription() );
+    }
+
+	/**
+	 * This test case will not fail, because 8bit encodings won't corrupt the parser.
+	 * @throws Exception
+	 */
+    public void testISOEncodedProject() throws Exception
+    {
+		File f = getFileForClasspathResource( "iso-8859-15-encoded-pom.xml" );
+		MavenProject isoEncodedProject = getProject( f );
+		
+		assertEquals( "öäüß", isoEncodedProject.getDescription() );
+    }
 }
Index: trunk/maven-project/src/test/resources/iso-8859-15-encoded-pom.xml
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--- trunk/maven-project/src/test/resources/iso-8859-15-encoded-pom.xml	(revision 0)
+++ trunk/maven-project/src/test/resources/iso-8859-15-encoded-pom.xml	(revision 0)
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-15"?>
+
+<project>
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <groupId>maven</groupId>
+  <artifactId>maven-core</artifactId>
+  <name>Maven</name>
+  <version>2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <description>öäüß</description>
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <artifactId>maven-plexus-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>1.0</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <plexusConfiguration>src/conf/plexus.conf</plexusConfiguration>
+          <plexusConfigurationPropertiesFile>src/conf/plexus.properties</plexusConfigurationPropertiesFile>
+          <plexusApplicationName>Continuum</plexusApplicationName>
+        </configuration>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>plexus:runtime</goal>
+            </goals>
+            <configuration>
+              <plexusApplicationName>ContinuumPro</plexusApplicationName>
+            </configuration>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+</project>
Index: trunk/maven-project/src/test/resources/utf-8-encoded-pom.xml
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--- trunk/maven-project/src/test/resources/utf-8-encoded-pom.xml	(revision 0)
+++ trunk/maven-project/src/test/resources/utf-8-encoded-pom.xml	(revision 0)
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<project>
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <groupId>maven</groupId>
+  <artifactId>maven-core</artifactId>
+  <name>Maven</name>
+  <version>2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <description>öäüß</description>
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <artifactId>maven-plexus-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>1.0</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <plexusConfiguration>src/conf/plexus.conf</plexusConfiguration>
+          <plexusConfigurationPropertiesFile>src/conf/plexus.properties</plexusConfigurationPropertiesFile>
+          <plexusApplicationName>Continuum</plexusApplicationName>
+        </configuration>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>plexus:runtime</goal>
+            </goals>
+            <configuration>
+              <plexusApplicationName>ContinuumPro</plexusApplicationName>
+            </configuration>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+</project>